Digg is still alive?
Digg founder Kevin Rose offers to buy Pocket from Mozilla
Submitted 2 months ago by Pro@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
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urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
tsugu@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
It’s going to re-launch soon
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
And the Apollo developer is apparently consulting on the mobile experience in one last “fuck you” to Reddit.
TheGreatSnacku@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Yeah they just had some bugs last go around and needed a bit of time (give or take 13 years to fix them.)
Psythik@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Kevin Rose is in charge again? I thought he sold Digg after the massive failure that was v4 back in 2010.
Either way, I’m glad to see that digg is coming back. Reddit needs more competition. I’m hopeful that they will succeed this time around and steal back the user base that migrated to reddit and helped make them become the evil giant they are today (I am one such migrant).
metallic_substance@lemmy.world 2 months ago
lol. About 10 (maybe more) years too late
shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
What is dead can never die
gnutrino@programming.dev 2 months ago
That is not dead which can eternal lie, and with strange eons even Digg may come back.
BodilessGaze@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Kevin Ross Digg wgah’nagl fhtagn
brokenlcd@feddit.it 2 months ago
It died so hard it underflowed and came back to life. Poorly most likely.
can@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And they even hired the Apollo app dev
urhovaldeko@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Really? Apollo was the best client, kinda miss it and the reddit that used to be.
hopesdead@startrek.website 2 months ago
It was restarted in like the last year.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
No.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Rose just bought the name back. It’s relaunching soon.
kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I missed out on Digg and started right with Reddit, if it is alive or back, it would be a fun experiment (or maybe not a fun one).
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Pocket is something that I think sounds super neat in theory, but I never actually personally found any use for it.
And while I don’t think it was wrong for Mozilla to try to find an avenue for a more diversified income, I feel like they overpaid for Pocket, and it was the wrong thing to try to make money from.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
My main issue is that they forced it on everyone. You had to explicitly opt-out instead of opt-in. If they had made it an extension and recommended it on upgrade or something, I would’ve been fine with it. Or if they had a very clear privacy policy around it. But the rollout was sketchy enough that I knee-jerk disabled it when I saw it.
The idea itself is totally fine, desirable even. I have an ereader, and it makes a ton of sense to save things for later reading. But the product rubbed me the wrong way, so I refused to use it.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Digg will take it over?
I’ll put down some money to see how fast this will be a closed source enshittified subscription product
MisterMoo@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Then they release Pocket v4 which everyone hates, usage dwindles but they refuse to roll back, and then it finally dies.
synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
Thank goodness, my smattering of porn links will be saved
YoiksAndAway@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Good news for Kobo owners!
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I thought pocket was okay for finding stuff to read while pooping, but I turned it off when I started getting horoscope and astrology articles in my science feed.
Brewchin@lemmy.world 2 months ago
That sounds more like Flipboard than Pocket?
But I’ve not used either in many years, and I’ve never been a fan of algorithmic discovery, so it’s possible Pocket went down that route, too.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Didn’t know he did something on Screen Saver. But I seem to remember the show being much older than what they mention.
MolecularCactus1324@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeah he was on Screen Savers with Sarah Lane (who he dated) and then Alex Albrecht. TechTV was bought by G4 and Screen Savers became Attack of the Show. While at TechTV, he started digg and actually advertised it on the Screen Savers, without clarifying that he was the owner. Later, G4 fired all the Tech TV staff, so Kevin worked on digg full time. He went on to start diggnation podcast with Alex Albrecht — which they’ve recently brought back. As many know, when digg v4 launched, it was widely rejected, and the site lost its user base to Reddit.
Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He was literally on air talent lol
mhague@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I distinctly remember the two Kevins as hosts around the time I watched G4TV. I ended up playing a game called Blockland for years after they showed it on air. Somehow I never realized Kevin Rose went on to become that Kevin Rose.
no_me_jodas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
I still call him the Dark Tipper
fluxion@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I used to be in a constant state of amazement that there was a cable TV channel dedicated to gaming. Screen savers was such a fun show.
Paradox@lemdro.id 2 months ago
Used screen savers to bootstrap digg by free advertising
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Wish someone had done this for Reader
db2@lemmy.world 2 months ago
He really wants to get his hand in the Pocket pool.
roserose56@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
If its not turned into a pay thing take it!
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Final nail in the coffin.
IllNess@infosec.pub 2 months ago
Get a shovel. Time to Digg.
errer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Digg: the founding father of enshittification
lennee@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lol